My dad died, trying to recover voicemail from locked iPhone

My dad died recently and my mom really wants any old voicemail messages we have. I got a new phone a few months ago and still have the old one with all his old messages on it, but I can't remember the passcode. I've googled around and it looks like the only way to get into a locked iPhone is with a reset, which would lose all the (unbacked-up) data. It seems like it's probably lost, and this is a long shot, but does anyone know another way to get into the iPhone? (I know, for the future, automatic backup is turned on now).

Submitted February 01, 2018 at 06:29AM by keighte123 http://ift.tt/2rYGT0m